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NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 19:14:06 -0600
From: ANTant{at}zimage.com (Ant)
Subject: Re: Unable to connect to GitHub in Windows XP Pro SP3's IE8 web
browser?
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> It's because the builtin cryptography library in Windows XP doesn't support
> SHA-256. That library is used by MSIE.

> Simple solution is to switch to another browser that doesn't use Trident
> (the MSIE's web engine). e.g. Firefox or Chrome/ium or any of browsers based
> on those two.

Thanks. :(
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